Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Cats and birds

One day the birds stopped coming to our garden, and two days ago I noticed the reason why, hiding underneath a bush, the neighbours cat. However, this morning the birds where back in multiple numbers. Bluetits, robins, sparrows, starlings, and the odd pidgon.

Monday, July 25, 2005

Laundry war

I love laundry. Nice clean crisp laundry, nicely folded/hung in my cupboard. Apparently it gets there via the laundy basket and the washing machine, rumour has it ironing may be involved.

I try to stay out of it, and have managed so far, but mainly due to the fact that I am the last person to run out of clean clothes in our household. However I fear this tactic is slowly coming to an end.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Shoe list

Red shoes is a must, so when in Rome do as the Romans and buy yourself a pair of totally useless red shoes with very high stiletto heals. Not at all practical for cobbled streets, but it is a matter of owning them, just in case.

And on the subject of hight heals I once chased a con-artist down the street in 4 inch high heals... not realising I was wearing heals till after the chase. (He got away in a car).

A few weeks later, the same shoes where being worn when it was announced that our company founder where going to pay us a visit, and as I was coming up the stairs to greet him one of my heals broke!

Tired

Friday is finally here, and if I wasn't so tired I would be counting the hours till I can get out of here (the office). If I was driving home today I would have to get myself a tub of cinnamon to sniff.

Ipod Playlist

Would anyone like a copy of my Ipod playlist? Or how about a list of my favourite shoes? or holiday destinations? No?Ok, have a list of my boy's birthday present list (I finally got around to writing the thank you cards, he's 3, he doesn't write much yet):

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

It's all in your head

I've fallen... given in to blogging about blogging...

Writing what is in your head, doesn't always come out as it did in your head. Does that make you a bad writer? I have no idea. I have no idea how it came out in your head. I'll let you be the judge and jury on your blog.

Post Scriptum:"It's all in your head" - quote from which current day film?

Friday, July 15, 2005

Bubble burst

When I was a kid my parents told me and my brother our televison was a colour TV (the box was green), and since the neighbours kids had had a similar story from their parents we where all happy with our colour TV's.

That is until one of the neighbours kids went to visit the neighbours at the end of our street, they had the real thing.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Please look behind you

On the back of every toilet cubicle door in our office building there is a sign requesting you look behind yourself and leave the toilet in the state which you expect to find it. It even hints at using the toilet brush which is provided and I must say I always find the toilets pristine clean and tidy.

However, I find it immensely iritating when the toiletrolls are not put on their holder the correct way!

No offence, but he was not exactly asked to insert the epidural. all he was doing is what any birthpartner does. A traggic accident, but being somebodies birthpartner does not put you on the hospital payroll.

In light of yesterdays events in London (which I am not going to post about), this story seems even more petty than it would have on a normal day.

My heart goes out to everyone who was directly or indirectly involved in yesterdays events, and a great big thank you to everyone in the emergency services, and everyone else who could lend a helping hand, who went out of their way to help everyone through the day.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Horses

Enjoying cafe life in Belgium, our son would spot horse drawn carriages with tourists passing by on the cobbled roads. He usually heard them before he spotted them due to the noice their hoves would make on the cobbles.

"A horse is coming mommy!", he exclaimed exitedly, immediately followed by a disaapointed face, "That's just a suitcase".

In the old days people would let horses pull their luggage, but then the automobile, airoplane and airhostess was invented and now people pull their own luggage.

Monday, July 04, 2005

What I Did on my Summer Holiday

My holiday got of to a good start when I collapsed at work and ended up at hospital. I did manage to recover enough to sleep in the passenger seat while we drove off to Belgium to celebrate my 34th birthday. I got an Ipod!!! and enough chocolate, food, beer, wine and sunshine to get me through the day, at which point I had been off the tablets for two days, so I could enjoy the day.

However, the Ipod, thoguh being a great toy, was not the most memorable event, neither was my recent hospital visit, no, the most memorable event was the day prior to my birthday, when we took the train to Antwerp for some shopping therapy. After having had lunch and done sightseeing in 33 degrees celcius, and my son getting everyones attention in the department store with "I don't like that one mommy. I like this one, it's pink!" we went back to the station to catch a train back to Brugge where we where staying.

Antwerp station being an amazingly beautiful building and the downwards extention of platforms (3 levels) killed the extra half hour we had to spend there as we missed our first train. Not that we where not on time, or that we where waiting on the wrong platform. It was more a case of the train on our announced platform was not going in the right direction, and after it left our train disappeared of the announcement board with it. Noone knew what was going on. As it turned out, we should have taken the train in the wrong direction and changed at the first stop. Some sort of announcement would have been nice.

The following week we had my parents visiting from Denmark, and everything went smooth. My son got his pink birthday cake, as requested, and he only fell of his new bike once. But then came friday and we had to drive my parents to Standsted. With only seconds to spare they just made it, even though we had left in plenty of time, but that is the M25 for you. Or so we thought, untill we hit the 25 again going back. Rush hour all over with we where parked on the northern part of the M25 circle around London for approx 1½ hour, to find the road had been closed and at the roundabout there was a lonely policeman and a couple of roadwork workers doing there best to direct traffic in the right directions. Re-direction signs would have been nice.

But all in all I had a great holiday, and am ready for a holiday at work to recover!